Chew On This Tasty Tours

Chew On This Tasty Tours Curated culinary experiences across British Columbia with a focus on the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island. Private groups and special gatherings welcome.

Local kitchens, shared tables, and the people who shape place. *We are a 100% BC owned company
*We support local producers, bakers, farmers, chefs, vintners & brewers
*We work with Economic Development, BIA's, Tourism Boards and Destination Marketers to curate customized tours to highlight your community
*Real Estate Agents or corporations: we offer you custom team building experiences or hospit

ality gifts.
*FAM & media hosting services available.
*Collaborating with Chefs across Canada to curate "With The Chef" experiences-reach out to us! DM for more info.

Most first-time guests arrive expecting a food tour.Before long, the tastings fade into the background. Stories are shar...
09/09/2026

Most first-time guests arrive expecting a food tour.

Before long, the tastings fade into the background. Stories are shared. Questions get asked. Coffee is sipped, not gulped.

This was Brandon at Smoking Gun in downtown Chilliwack with a couple of our guests.

Brandon, and all our other hosts, are Chilliwack.

Our local host Chris, a Chilliwack teacher/librarian, is back in the classroom for the fall, so our guided Chilliwack tasty tours are running weekends only for the next while.

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday this fall.

Weekend dates + booking available through the website and via the link in the comments.

Smoking Gun Coffee District 1881 Tourism Ch'illiwack

ROOTED is becoming Nene.The new name comes from Sarah. Nene is a Dene word connected to land, which feels right for a ga...
09/02/2026

ROOTED is becoming Nene.

The new name comes from Sarah. Nene is a Dene word connected to land, which feels right for a gathering shaped by plants, food, story and time around the table.

The heart of the experience isn’t changing. Sayisi Dene Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau will still lead a small group through tea blending, a seasonal lunch, and the stories and plant knowledge she chooses to share.

But the place is changing.
Later this fall, Nene will begin a new chapter in Vancouver.

Which means September 26 will be our final gathering in Fort Langley.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us there, this is the last one.

Learn more through the link the comments.

Someone comes to visit and suddenly you’re the tour guide.Where should we go? What should we eat? What can I show you th...
08/25/2026

Someone comes to visit and suddenly you’re the tour guide.

Where should we go? What should we eat? What can I show you that actually feels like this place?

I’ve always loved that part of Chew On This.

Food gives us somewhere to start. A coffee, something made down the road, a table where catching up is encouraged. And along the way, visitors get to meet some of the people who make a community what it is.

Chilliwack is especially good for this. There are so many independent places where the person behind what you’re eating is still part of the story.

Sometimes the best way to show someone around is simply to eat your way through it together.

08/19/2026

Sweet, grassy, woody, herbaceous.

Cedar, sage and sweetgrass greet you first.

Ten glass jars run along the table, filled with leaves, petals, berries and bark. Nature’s palette, laid out and waiting.

Rose petals. Elderberry. Goldenrod. Raspberry leaf.

Then Sarah begins.

Chef Sarah Meconse Mierau of Tradish: The Ancestor Café shares the plant knowledge and stories she chooses to bring to the table, while spoons begin moving from jar to jar.

A little more of this. Maybe less of that.

And then another blend.
One to keep. One to give away.
Sarah explains why.

Then lunch arrives.

Plates begin to empty. Conversation stretches a little longer. And the table, which began the afternoon covered in jars and ingredients, has become something else entirely.

ROOTED returns to Fort Langley on September 26.
A small-group, Indigenous-led culinary gathering with Sarah, built around plants, tea blending, lunch and conversation.

The gathering is intentionally small, with 16 seats around the table. Five seats are already booked.

Details + booking in the first comment.

Don and Paula had two days in the Pacific Rim and weren’t looking for a conventional food tour.They wanted to get a feel...
08/12/2026

Don and Paula had two days in the Pacific Rim and weren’t looking for a conventional food tour.

They wanted to get a feel for the place. Meet people. Eat well. Have time to wander. And not feel like they had to rush from one stop to the next.

One of the people I thought they might enjoy meeting was Pete Clarkson at his Washed Up Workshop in Tofino. Pete is a former Pacific Rim National Park Reserve warden who has spent years collecting marine debris washed ashore along the west coast of Vancouver Island and turning some of it into art.

The food mattered, of course. But the thread running through those two days was really the people. That has always been at the heart of the experiences I create.

A few days later, Don wrote:

“These were experiences, not typical Food Tours, which is exactly what we were looking for.”

And perhaps my favourite part:

“We met 3+ very interesting locals that we would never have known about otherwise. We hung out, learned about the area, explored and had the most interesting conversation with the kind folks we met.”

It really is about more than a few good bites, isn’t it?

A few of my favourite things.Saffron tea poured from a glass pot.A warm scone, a ridiculous amount of Devonshire cream a...
08/09/2026

A few of my favourite things.

Saffron tea poured from a glass pot.
A warm scone, a ridiculous amount of Devonshire cream and fruity jam.
Blank walls becoming enormous works of art.
Restaurants where the person behind the food is part of the reason you came.
A table that gets noisier as lunch goes on.
Learning something I didn’t know about a place I thought I knew.
Turning a corner and finding something wonderful.
A walk between bites.
And nowhere we need to be in a hurry.

Looking at the photos, I realized I’ve pretty much built Chew On This out of my favourite things.

If some of them are your favourite things too, August and September have a few good excuses to come along.

The Village Table in Fort Langley • The Downtown Table in Chilliwack (remember Chilliwack Mural Festival, August 14–16) • Spice of Life in Surrey • ROOTED in Fort Langley, September 26

The Village Table has a new starting point at Grounds & Greens Cafe.Ben and Mannel are both chefs. Ben spent nearly 20 y...
08/06/2026

The Village Table has a new starting point at Grounds & Greens Cafe.

Ben and Mannel are both chefs. Ben spent nearly 20 years with Four Seasons Hotels, and Mannel brings more than 20 years of experience in kitchens.

Together, they have built a café where everything is plant-based, though that is not the first thing you notice. The food is familiar, generous and very good.
One of our recent guests put it plainly: “I don’t even like mushrooms, but I love this.”

Beginning here gives guests time to settle in before Debbie leads them through Fort Langley, with each partner adding a different part of the afternoon.

Choose your date, bring your favourite people, and we’ll plan the afternoon.
Tourism Langley

Don and Paula came all the way from New Mexico to spend two private days exploring Tofino and Ucluelet.They met Tofino a...
07/29/2026

Don and Paula came all the way from New Mexico to spend two private days exploring Tofino and Ucluelet.

They met Tofino artist Pete Clarkson in his studio and joined Lisa Ahier at čukʷaa haʔuk café on the Clayoquot Campus for two classic SOBO dishes: her seafood chowder and polenta fries. The next morning, they explored Ucluelet with local photographer Geoff Johnson, creator of UkeeTube.By lunchtime, Don and Paula had invited Geoff to stay and join them at the table.

Along the way, they discovered that both Pete and Lisa had Albuquerque stories of their own. A small-world connection none of us could have planned.

I make the introductions, but the best moments are the ones that take on a life of their own.

Private Pacific Rim experiences are created by request for couples and small groups.

Tourism Tofino Tourism Ucluelet



Thanks to Lisa, Pete and Geoff for the captures.

This Saturday, four women will begin their Chilliwack afternoon here, with coffee and a bite at Smoking Gun.For 30 years...
07/24/2026

This Saturday, four women will begin their Chilliwack afternoon here, with coffee and a bite at Smoking Gun.

For 30 years, they have made time for one long weekend together every year.

These days, they live across North America and Australia, so choosing a date, finding a meeting place and actually arriving is no small thing.

Chris will be there to welcome them and guide the afternoon, taking care of the timing and the details as they discover a little more of downtown Chilliwack.

Which leaves them free to concentrate on the important part.

Talking. Laughing. Filling in the spaces since last year.

The food brings people to the table. The time together is what they are really booking.

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